Letter: Helping Chester's youth is crucial

Here in the city of Chester, if you take a good look, you will see our city growing. We are aware of our crime problems with our teenagers and young adults. I would like to believe that our mayor is doing a good job here in our city.

Our roads are being repaired, our abandoned homes are being torn down and we have businesses moving back into our city and new low-income housing for our older adults. We were in need of a food market in Chester, and now we have two new food markets, one on each side of our city. Bottom Dollar is a about to open for business soon and that means jobs. We have Harrahís Casino ó that means jobs; PPL Park in our city ó that means jobs. We have Widener University in our city and we have one of the best hotels back in our city. People are coming back to our city and more business will follow.

Our city is being cleaned up. It seems like our biggest problem is with our young adults. We need to find a way to help. We need some type of recreation for them.

School will be letting out in June. We need to start preparing something to help get our young adults ready. Senseless crime is easy to get into when there is nothing to do. What happened to the part-time jobs for our kids to work during the summer break? Open up our parks and plan activities for our young adults. Our young adults are having a hard time and they are in need of help. It took a long time to put Chester back on the map.

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People will be coming from all over to our city because we are growing. Our crime problems will go down as soon as we do our best to help our young adults. Jobs, activities and education are key. We, the community members of our city, also have a part in helping our city grow. Keep in mind, when will young adults and teenagers living in the city of Chester see what we had Ė movies, skating rinks, block parties, swimming pools, festivals in our parks, YMCAs and YWCAs? Our young adults donít have these things.

Itís OK to build our city for jobs and businesses. We also have to build our city up for our young adults in mind.